Petey Dink, "He Taught Henrietta Some New Stuff"

C. A. Voight's *Petey Dink* strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons advancing a gag across four frames. Here, Petey teaches his bird Henrietta a new trick, with the humor depending on silent physical comedy and the reader's ability to follow action across panels—techniques that became foundational to comic strip narrative. By the 1910s, daily and Sunday newspaper strips had become laboratories for visual storytelling, establishing conventions (word balloons, panel borders, character continuity) that would define the emerging comic book medium.